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Bad sound

This is used if the file has a bad sound quality: mic recording, distorted sound or high kbps at low quality. If the file details already state a low bitrate, there's no need to add any warning. Optionally, you can add more information.

Please note that "skipping" can mean both: record skipping and skipping on the ripped stream.

Bad header

This is used if the mp3 header is bad so the durations and/or kbps differ in from player to player. It's hard to spot those files but easy to guess when you watch the bitrate in your player. Normally real VBR varies a lot, but it just reads 127 or 111 kbps all the time, something might be wrong. We recommend the free mp3DirectCut to get the real duration and bitrate of such files.

Unknown other artists

Sometimes it happens that your file reads many other artists besides the main artist. When the mix is too short to really have all those artists included then surely this is the case: A stream was ripped but the ripper doesn't know which artists were streamed as well so he simply included all artists from the line-up. For not adding false information we handle it like this:

The mix page will be titled something like "YYYY-MM-DD - Main Artist, Unknown @ Club".

On the page itself a note is added that the file includes other artists but it is not clear which. A template is used for this (see below).

Finding out when the file was really made public can be hard. In the above case it popped up on the dashboard on the usual Sunday. The first comment can give a direction about the date, but is no 100% indicator. Use e.g. 2018-02 or 2018-02-0X as date in unclear cases.